While Inside MusiCast has focused on bringing you the legendary musicians who have helped to shape the world music, we’re always keeping our ears peeled for the next generation of musicians who will keep this spirit alive and ongoing.
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Call it divine intervention, but when Shawn Lee and Andy Platts met for the first time back in 2008, they knew they had a special musical chemistry.
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Great musicians make great albums, but when you add a world class recording engineer and producer to the mix, you can take your project to another level. For nearly six decades, this is exactly what Al Schmitt has done for the world of music.
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When we last spoke to Keiko Matsui in March of 2011, she had just released “The Road”, which featured an incredible lineup of musicians, such as Vinnie Colaiuta, Richard Bona, James Hara and Kirk Whalum.
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The influence of West Coast AOR runs deep in the souls of many career musicians. Ask any studio or touring musician about their inspirations and you’re bound to hear an answer that would include the talented players who laced the liner notes of the great albums from the 70’s and 80’s.
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Tom Canning. You know him best for his excellent writing, arranging and for his amazing keyboard touches on most of Al Jarreau’s music.
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Tom Canning. You know him best for his excellent writing, arranging and for his amazing keyboard touches on most of Al Jarreaus music.
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Sometimes being an incredibly talented musician is only half the battle when you want to make it into the music industry. Drummer Tom Brechtlein’s rise to success is the classic tale of hard work, perseverance and self-promotion.
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On this episode of Inside MusiCast, we welcome back Steve Porcaro. When we first interviewed Steve in 2009, he broke the news to us that he was working on his first solo album project. If you heard the interview, you were also treated to two demos that Steve allowed us to share.
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Bill Maxwell’s talents stretch far beyond his drumming skills. Over the years, the Oklahoma native has become a first call LA session drummer, arranger, composer, and producer whose career began in a blues band and continued to a producer/drummer role with Andraé Crouch and The Disciples.
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Jimmy Haslip is a renaissance man who hasn’t let boundaries define him. As an original band member of the Yellow Jackets, his pronounced influence over the past 3 decades is seen in musicians today.
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Since the release of their debut album ‘Full Power’ in early 2014, Tristan is enjoying an ever-increasing fan base. The Netherlands-based soul, R&B, and jazz fusion band definitely has a sound that even Steve Lukather describes as “The best of the ‘70’s brought to 2015!”
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When it comes to West Coast music, Tommy Funderburk has been an icon for decades. If you’re familiar with Airplay, The Front, What If, Richard Marx, Steve Lukather, REO Speedwagon, Starship and Yes, then you’ve heard either his voice or his compositions over the years.
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A new Toto album doesn’t come along too often, so when one does it’s a pretty exciting topic for all of us at Inside MusiCast. In fact, Inside MusiCast began in 2006 – a few months after the release of the band’s last album “Falling In Between.”
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It’s been nine years since Toto last released a new studio album and many fans thought that Falling In Between might have been the band’s final chapter. Now, the story continues. Toto XIV is set to launch in Europe on March 20, the UK and Oceana on March 23 and North America on March 24.
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Until they had won their first Grammy for Best R&B Performance last year, Snarky Puppy was flying under the musical radar. Not anymore. The Grammy for their “Family Dinner” performance with Lalah Hathaway singing the track “Something” changed things for the band that formed a decade ago at the University of North Texas.
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In the world of recording and session musicians, there are names that are staples on hundreds of major recordings – names like Purdie, Lukather, Mathieson, Phillinganes, Porcaro, Kunkel, Sklar, Kortchmar, Raine, to name a few.
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Tris Imboden not only knows the meaning of gratitude, but he lives with it every day. As a self-taught musician, Tris worked his way into the world of music at a young age and never looked back.
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On this episode of Inside MusiCast, we take you back to Norway for a chat with past guest Ole Børud. We last spoke to Ole back in 2011 when he released his second solo album, “Keep Movin.”
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On this IMC New Artist Profile, we take you across the pond to the home of the UK’s own Nathan Williams. When we recently discovered his music, we were spellbound at the maturity and quality of his sound and musicianship at such a young age.
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